This volume looks in detail at trade between the Qing dynasty and the Edo shogunate primarily in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While touching on all manner of items traded, from where, to where, and the like, Oba Osamu particularly focuses on the importation of Chinese books to Japan. This entails a detailed discussion and analysis of the censorship procedures for d...(展开全部)

Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese relations from three different perspectives. Using first a wide lens, he suggests a new way to capture the relationship between China and Japan by characterizing the nature of their contact. From the first century ce, the primary reasons for contact moved from political and ceremonial to cultural, and on to commer...(展开全部)

Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese relations from three different perspectives. Using first a wide lens, he suggests a new way to capture the relationship between China and Japan by characterizing the nature of their contact. From the first century ce, the primary reasons for contact moved from political and ceremonial to cultural, and on to commer...(展开全部)

Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their harvests. While their bodies slept, the souls of the benandanti were ab...(展开全部)

【反思：近代早期的中日文學與文化互動】 本書提出10個有著豐富細節的案例研究，檢視從 #明末 到20世紀初，中、日兩國知識份子之間的文化與文學互動。作者思考黃海兩岸的學者，瞭解彼此的語言與文化，借鑑大眾熟知的文書與形式，以及為共同的文學實踐所做的努力。 儘管東亞文化圈內的文學與文化流動，有時被想像成全然單向的，由中國往四周國家的文本傳播過程，但《反思：近代早期的中日文學與文化互動》（Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity）收錄的文章揭示出一幅更複雜的景象：凸顯了文學與文化參與為何總是能帶來創造性地適應與妥協的機會。檢證日本口語詩的中譯版本、日本人參與的中國傳奇故事、日本歷史故事的白話...(展开全部)

China's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can surviving traces of that era's print culture reveal about the makers and consumers of these books? Home and the World addresses this question by carefully examining a wide range of late Ming books, considering them not merely as texts...(展开全部)

China's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can surviving traces of that era's print culture reveal about the makers and consumers of these books? Home and the World addresses this question by carefully examining a wide range of late Ming books, considering them not merely as texts...(展开全部)

What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam? This study offers an overview of the cultural, diplomatic, commercial, and religious relationships that flourished between Iran and China, building on the pioneering work of Berthold Laufer’s ...(展开全部)

What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam? This study offers an overview of the cultural, diplomatic, commercial, and religious relationships that flourished between Iran and China, building on the pioneering work of Berthold Laufer’s ...(展开全部)